Hannukkah

Today 8 fun nights of celebration begins. We are doing our best at our first Hannukkah, last year we tried some days to rejoyce however not all of them. Although we do not have a menorah, traditionally used in a temple, we found this video very helpful about lighting and placing the candles: https://youtu.be/0NAn2JZjtEk?si=_Xb7xDNJZy_8nAd5

Being without inspired us to create our own so we made this menorah on paper and Barron colours in the flame each day.

Apparently the item I have been referring to as a menorah is actually called a hanukkiah: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Ze1TtPvIVfo

Dad's phone has space so we are celebrating with a virtual menorah instead:

Day 1:

Day 2: 

Day 3: 

Day 4: 

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Day 5:

Day 6:

Day 7:

Day 8:

On the first evening we celebrated with traditional gifts and a special meal and we played dreidel:

On the second evening Barron was gifted some books:

On the third evening Barron recieved some games: 

On the fourth evening barron was given a practical gift which was a compass: 

On the fifth evening we had a family gathering Barron and I had an afternoon of watching movies and playing movie bingo as well as eating some Kraft Dinner: 

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On the sixth evening we talked about giving to 

On the seventh evening we made some handmade gifts that we will share with:

On the eighth evening we had some traditional food:

The most lovely community in Toronto called The Beaches was where we saw a giant menorah and this video showed how the rabbi lite it up: 

Each part of the dridel has a hebrew letter and the hebrew word for Hannukah means dedication:

These images came from a neat app called: 

If you would enjoy a video demonastration, cannot think of a more lovely duo than marshmellow and Wengie to educate: https://youtu.be/GaOuEpeEOpQ?si=xRKhxBo_7AVdSe2j

https://jewish.momsandcrafters.com/hanukkah-suncatchers/

The dreidel comes with five letters – choose one. The letters of the dreidel are nun, gimmel, hey and shin. In Israel, the shin is replaced with a pey so I included that too. Source: https://jewish.momsandcrafters.com/hanukkah-suncatchers/